Can a Muggle use a wand?

Although he couldn't necessarily cast spells, his use of the wand produced a powerful enough blast that it "kicked like a mule" when waved. This further suggests that, within the world of Harry Potter, Muggles can use wands and access magic.
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Can a Muggle use magic?

Although like a Muggle they can't perform magic, a Squib is often far more integrated in the wizarding world. For while a Muggle is as Muggle can be, with Muggle family members and, well, Muggle everything, one of the main differences with a Squib is that they're related to a witch or wizard, just without the magic.
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Can Muggles use wands fantastic beasts?

Yes, a muggle can do something with a wand.
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Why does the Muggle get a wand?

The simple answer is that the wand Dumbledore gives the muggle is a fake, and Kowalski never actually performs any magic. Basically, the whole premise of Fantastic Beasts 3 is that Dumbledore, Newt Scamander, and the gang are trying to foil Gellert Grindelwald's plot to become ruler of the wizarding world.
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What happens if a Muggle sees magic?

Thus, in the modern age, most Muggles believed magic to be nothing but a childish fantasy. Wizards and witches hid their world with Muggle-Repelling Charms, and if a Muggle witnessed a magical event or saw a magical creature such as a dragon, their memories were erased.
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Can a Muggle use a broom?

Wands and brooms (and flying cars) are tools that channel magic. Thus the same way that Muggles cannot use wands to perform magic, they wouldn't be able to use brooms to fly.
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How do Muggle-borns have magic?

Origin of magical abilities

Muggle-borns inherit magic from a distant ancestor; they are descended from Squibs who have married Muggles and whose families had lost the knowledge of their wizarding legacy. The magic resurfaces unexpectedly many generations later.
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Was Lily Potter a Muggle?

Harry Potter's mother, Lily Evans, and his best friend, Hermione Granger, were Muggle-born. Unlike children of wizarding families who receive their Hogwarts acceptance letter via an owl, a Hogwarts employee will usually hand-deliver the letter to Muggle-borns in order to meet their Muggle parents and explain.
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Can Muggles see Hogwarts Express?

It's quite possible it's visible, since Hermione's parents dropped her off to the train and there was no mention of them NOT seeing it.
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Is Jacob a Squib?

He might have the right intentions after all, but Hogwarts' charms should not be overridden by any professor, even if they are as powerful as Albus Dumbledore. There is another option and is that Jacob is a Squib (just like Filch), but without him knowing it.
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Can Muggles see Dementors?

While Muggles cannot see Dementors, their draining power is so strong that non-magical people can still sense them.
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Can a Muggle become a wizard?

He explained it wasn't possible, so my take would be that no, a Muggle can't just decide to become a witch/wizard. From my understanding, Muggle borns can manifest the abilities or get them genetically from a witch/wizard who married a Muggle in their family tree.
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How can 2 Muggles have a wizard child?

It's not depended on any criteria, it mainly depends on gene A wizard have to born with the magic gene regardless of their parents. Those born to Muggle families but who are skilled with and have the magic gene are referred to as Muggle-borns. A child born with magic to two Muggle parents is considered a Muggle-born.
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Can a Muggle marry a wizard?

Eileen Prince and Merope Gaunt married Muggles, Muggle/wizard marriages were seen as lesser unions. Many marriages would have likely been looked down upon, such as James Potter's marriage to Muggle-born Lily Evans, or Ron Weasley's marriage to Muggle-born Hermione Granger.
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Why do Muggles not see Platform 9 3 4?

Their is the line in book when harry first saw a weasley running towards the barrier, many people crowded around him and blocked him from view. According to Pottermore/J.K. Rowling, the muggles sometimes see wizards or witches go trough.
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Why does Bellatrix call Harry a half-blood?

Harry is a half-blood, like the half-blood prince, because his mother was a muggleborn (aka a mud-blood). In the wizarding world there are: purebloods: those with wizard parents and grandparents. muggleborns: those with muggle parents and grandparents.
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What did Voldemort call muggles?

I've watched this movie a million times and I have never heard it until now. Lily wasn't a muggle. So what prompts Voldemort to say "your filthy muggle mother?" She was muggle born which for a lot of pure bloods is the same thing.
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Is Harry's dad a pure-blood?

Print. Harry James Potter holds half-blood status in Rowling's imagined wizarding world because his mother is Muggle-born and his father is pure-blood. There are three main blood statuses; pure-blood, half-blood, and Muggle-born, which are all methods of determining a witch or wizard's magical lineage.
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Who is the strongest Muggle?

Mary Lou Barebone. The most powerful muggle is Mary Lou Barebone from the Harry Potter spin-off Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. As the leader of the New Salem Philanthropic Society (aka the Second Salemers), she holds an immense amount of power as she attempts to bring down all witches and wizards for good.
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Are Muggle-borns rare?

The chances that any one of their children will inherit the r allele from both parents are 1 in 4, so the odds of having a Muggle-born (rr) child are about 1 birth in 10,000. Not common, but common enough that there are a good number of Muggle-borns.
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How do Muggles pay for Hogwarts?

In the real-life version of Gringotts Bank at The Wizarding World of Harry Potter theme park in Orlando, muggles can pay real-life money for Gringotts bank notes, which can be used to pay for things around the park, or kept for souveniers.
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Can a Squib have a magical child?

On a rare occasion, non-magical parents (muggles) can produce magical offspring, called muggle-borns. In even rarer cases, some magical parents could have children incapable of magic, known as squibs. Squibs can interact with the magical world, which implies that they have slightly more magical ability than muggles.
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Can a Squib learn magic?

Although like a Muggle they can't perform magic. "A Squib is someone who was born into a wizarding family but hasn't got any magic powers." A Squib is almost the opposite of a Muggle-born wizard: he or she is a non-magical person born to at least one magical parent.
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Is JK Rowling a Squib?

The theory that the wizarding world is real and J.K. Rowling is somehow involved might sound like it belongs in The Quibbler, but it's bounced around the Potterverse internet for as long as its existed. Some maintain that Rowling is a Squib — a non-magical person unlucky enough to be born to a Magical family.
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